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That's nice dear. This is the CIA website archive of a previously classified document.
This is the CIA confirming the reporting of said tabloid.
If you mean "confirmed" in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.
Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that's true, too.
But if you're saying they're confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.
CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That's it.
That reads to me like the author is confirming what was reported by the magazine. It then goes on to document the contents of the file, not what was reported in the article.
Having said that, I seriously doubt the veracity of the KGB documents. I'd put money on this being some kind of cold war psyop hangover, rather than something that actually happened.
Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you're quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the "authoritative" in the description of "Canadian weekly world news".
SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO
TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: "COSMIC REVENGE" -- FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,' IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS...
Shit, you're right! I totally missed that!
I find documents in ALL CAPS like that extremely hard to parse, which is why I case corrected the main text. Should have done the rest of it too apparently!
eta: Updated the transcript to hopefully make that clearer
Based on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.
I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as "authoritative" I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.